NASA performs first taxi tests of experimental X-59 supersonic demonstrator
Aerotime
JULY 18, 2025
On June 6, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order that would remove the blanket ban on overland civilian supersonic flights, moving to a system based on specific noise thresholds instead. Projects like the X-59 aim to collect the sorts of data that would facilitate the determination of these noise thresholds.
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